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ASID 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PERSONAL INSIGHT: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION Stacy Clifford Simplician Stacy addressed the following questions to provide a personal insight into her research contribution in the area of intellectual disability. What led you to work in this area? In 2006, I began pursuing a Master’s degree in political science with a specialization in political philosophy. I discovered that prominent political philosophers had, at times, excluded people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from their definitions of personhood and citizenship. As a sibling of an autistic person, I found this exclusion problematic; I also believed that these theoretical exclusions impacted policies and practices in the world around me. Hence, if we wanted to change policies and practices, we also needed to change the ways we think theoretically. That premise guides my work. What have been your highlights? One of the biggest highlights for me has been to work and dialogue with researchers who conduct empirical work on the social inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and with professionals in the field of supports and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As a political theorist who works primarily with abstract concepts and texts, it has been gratifying to know that my work has resonated with people in different academic disciplines, particularly those who work more in applied fields. How has your work changed practice and what needs to change? I hope that my work helps support two kinds of changes. First, I hope my work makes visible the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, their families, and support staff to disciplines not focused on intellectual disability, including my home disciplines of political science and women’s and gender studies. To make widespread change, I think more people need to be invested in the quality of life of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The second aim of my work has been to invite people within the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities to think more theoretically: to consider how feminist and political theory offers the field of intellectual disability a rich theoretical history that complicates and expands how we define key concepts. For me, thinking conceptually opens up our imaginations, inviting us to think about the world in new and inspiring ways. 22 www.asid.asn.au
ASID 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS What you will be presenting at ASID and how it might help attendees practice/thinking? My keynote address will focus on the concept of social inclusion and show how feminist theorists help complicate the ways in which we imagine inclusion. Similarly, my workshop will draw on feminist theories of freedom and apply their insight to recent work on the concept of encounter. A major part of my work has been to consider how a lot of our concepts, like inclusion and freedom, have been based on the experiences of people without intellectual or developmental disabilities. Bringing in the experiences of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, I believe, helps us expand and refine the meaning of these concepts. I hope that my presentations will give attendees new ways to think about inclusion and freedom that can then inform their practices, and hopefully, continue the work of improving the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Stacy Clifford Simplician Senior Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies Subscribe to Voice the journal of Down Syndrome Australia If you work with people with Down syndrome and their families, stay up to date with the latest research, health information and news about the Down syndrome community in Australia. Three issues a year, delivered worldwide. Voice is proud to include content submitted by people with Down syndrome and we encourage people to write their own stories or submit videos to our website. Subscribe here: https://www.downsyndrome.org.au/subscribe.html Learn more at our new website https://downsyndromevoice.org.au Vol 40, Issue 3, September 2019 23
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